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Student Symposiums

I'm currently in the middle of a two day symposium for the students. We all make a presentation of our work, and then show it to fellow students and any staff that happen to be floating around. I know this has been done before, but it honestly feels like speaking (and listening!) in code, especially having talked to all my friends before hand and heard the true stories behind the neat little slides. So here's the student version of what you say in a presentation (on the left) vs. what you actually mean (on the right):

@Psi: I would be tempted to say the phrases are seen across the academic spectrum, but they desperate scrambling for something to show (and frequent recourse to the professor/someone else) is a particularly student thing. Especially the way our projects are done, where you get a fixed time, then told to stop, then expected to present some form of results.